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Joe Alphonse, tribal chairman of the Tsilhqot’in Nation, is pictured at Farwell Canyon, B.C., in a 2014 file photo. The First Nation is remembering a warrior chief who was wrongfully hanged 151 years ago and say they won’t allow another injustice to be done to their ancestor. (JONATHAN HAYWARD/THE CANADIAN PRESS)

by CAMILLE BAINS, The Canadian Press, July 18, 2016

Members of a British Columbia First Nation are remembering a warrior chief who was wrongfully hanged 151 years ago and say they won’t allow another injustice to be done to their ancestor.

The First Nation says a service was held Monday at the site of a high school in New Westminster, B.C., which was built atop a former cemetery where the remains of Tsilhqot’in war Chief Ahan may have been buried after he was executed on July 18, 1865.

Come join us at a 1-day gathering at Yuct Ne Senxiymetkwe, unceded, unsurrendered Secwepemc Territory on August 4, 2016, to mark 2-years since the Imperial Metals Mount Polley disaster. Come join us in Resistance to all mining and express our outrage of the opening of the Mount Polley mine! Please bring your hand drums, food […]

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VANCOUVER – Join us in solidarity on Sunday July 10, 2pm at Spartacus Books, 3378 Findlay Street in East Vancouver to support Splatsin Elders and community members who are protecting their ancestors’ final resting place.

Jody Leon of the Splatsin says, “The government and Splatsin Chief and Council are putting to vote for the sale/settlement of ancestral burial ground that was illegally transferred to a settler who is using the land to farm on top of our ancestral remains. This is a human rights violation and the Heritage Act and the Cemetery Act do not protect Indigenous ancestral remains. Urgent help needed to promote action to get the ancestral graveyard in the lands of the Splatsin people to be honoured and protected.”

They will be raising funds to help bring elders and spiritual leaders together on July 16, at the Splatsin referendum vote location, to protect sacred burial grounds from being sold.

Splatsin elder Nathan Kinbasket will speak on what’s happening with entertainment by poet Mitcholos and more speakers and performers to be announced.